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By Bill Lydon, Editor Outsourced cyber security services may be a good alternative to maintaining in-house personnel. Keeping up with cyber security is a huge technical challenge and a moving target. It requires major ongoing investment to remain effective in deterring threats and performing damage control after an attack.

Courses include Using the ANSI/ISA-62443 Standards to Secure Your Industrial Control System); Cybersecurity for Automation, Control, and SCADA Systems; and Introduction to Industrial Automation Security and the ANSI/ISA-62443 Standards.

Honeywell is also offering Intel Security’s Enterprise Security Manager and Next Generation Firewall to its customers.

HPS will supply control, safety and security systems for the expansion of Freeport LNG’s terminal, located on Quintana Island near Freeport, Texas.

APLEX Technology Inc. announced today that its industrial PC solutions are compatible with EtherCAT® Ethernet fieldbus technology to enable integration into real-time automation applications.

By The OPC Foundation The OPC Foundation has further developed its standard into the OPC Unified Architecture (UA) which provides solutions to the identified drawbacks of OPC Classic while meeting the requirements for use in a modern device architecture.

The Detector Control System (DCS), part of the LHS, uses more than 5000 CANopen nodes. The link between the Scada layer and CANopen is realized by means of OPC UA.

OPC Foundation board members, technology advisor council members, and OPC technology working group members have been participating in the Internet of Things and Industrie 4.0 initiatives very pro-actively.

By Bill Lydon, Editor The adoption of disruptive technologies can make or break your business. The effects can be positive or negative. Adopting what appears to be a disruptive technology that does not go mainstream or adopting it too early can break or significantly hurt a business. Automation professionals are in a unique position to understand, evaluate, and make recommendations to management about the adoption of new technology.

Not enough is being done globally to implement basic industrial cybersecurity measures.

By Intertec Glass-reinforced polymer (GRP) composite material for protective enclosures is electromagnetically transparent, making it easier to deploy wireless instrumentation.

Italian company is also relocating its headquarters to Silicon Valley in California.

LOGIIC report studies the possible use of remote connectivity to systems in the industrial automation and control systems (IACS) environment for the purposes of monitoring and diagnostics.

The program has a sensors element library, which allows non-RF and non-software savvy customers to develop wirelessly connected products.

FN110, a Field Wireless Communication Module; FN310, a Field Wireless Multi-Protocol Module; and FN510, a Field Wireless Multi-Function Module have achieved ISA100 Wireless certification.

Bitherm SL offers a variety of products including steam traps, a monitoring system, compact steam trap stations, manifolds and portable detection equipment.

The Special Publication 800-82 references ISA/IEC-62443 on 39 separate occasions.

By Craig Resnick, ARC Leading field instrumentation suppliers such as MicroMotion (a unit of Emerson) and Endress+Hauser have already equipped many of their Coriolis flow measurement products with Ethernet interfaces, including EtherNet/IP.

The ISA100 Wireless Compliance Institute (ISA100 WCI) will exhibit at the 2015 ACHEMA tradeshow in Frankfurt Germany, 15-19 June.

ANSI/NEMA WC 27500 may be purchased in hard copy for $105 on the NEMA website.